They have similar goals.
But The Joker is only a threat because the filmmakers need him to be. He puts himself in so many situations that could easily turn out bad for him, it's ridiculous! Dress up as a policeman in a police parade to shoot Gordon? How can anyone escape such a situation unless the filmmakers decides he has to escape so the movie can go on? And that scene at the hospital with Harvey Dent, which easily could have ended with Dent blowing the Joker's head off. Uh, him getting the upper hand on a confrontation with a policeman twice his built (this of course was done off camera so Nolan doesn't have to explain it). The cell phone that triggers a bomb, all it'd take was a cop refusing to hand him a cell phone and instead shoot his kneecaps.
He's not the greatest villain of our time, lik some claim, he's just the luckiest.
You see where I'm driving at? Dr. Baum never put himself in such danger. He operated from the shadows, he assigned missions to others. He was on top of things, he never put himself in harm's way. And if he was caught it was because Lohmann was a great detective.
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
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